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Large and hairy ape-like creature United States and Canada Bukit Timah Monkey Man [48] BTM, BTMM Forest-dwelling hominid or other primate: Singapore: Chatawa Monster [49] [50] Large ape-like creature Mississippi, United States Chuchunya [51] Large hominid: Russia Fouke Monster [52] [53] Jonesville Monster, Southern Sasquatch, Boggy Creek Monster
The term cryptid is used by proponents of cryptozoology, a pseudoscience, to refer to beings that cryptozoologists believe may in fact exist but have not yet been discovered. This category is for notable examples of entities that cryptozoologists have considered to be cryptids .
List of Paradoxa, cryptids or mythical creatures, in Carolus Linnaeus' 1735 Systema Natura.Detail from large Table. Table of the Animal Kingdom ("Regnum Animale") from a facimile of the 1st edition of Systema Naturæ (1735)
Cryptozoology is 'the study of hidden animals' (from Ancient Greek: κρυπτός, kryptós "hidden, secret"; Ancient Greek ζῷον, zōion "animal", and λόγος, logos, i.e. "knowledge, study"). The term dates from 1959 or before— Heuvelmans attributes the coinage of the term cryptozoology to Sanderson.
Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience that aims to prove the existence of entities from the folklore record, such as Bigfoot or chupacabras, as well as animals otherwise considered extinct, such as non-avian dinosaurs. This category contains articles relevant to the history and development of the pseudoscience.
Rank Page title Views Daily average Assessment Importance 1 Chupacabra: 91,579: 3,052 C: High: 2 Megalodon: 85,702: 2,856 FA: Unknown: 3 Skin-walker: 83,803: 2,793
As one reviewer explained, it is a book "about animals that might exist." [4] On the Track of Unknown Animals cites animals that had only been discovered relatively recently, such as the pygmy chimpanzee, coelacanth, Komodo dragon and giant panda; and those that are believed to have become extinct relatively recently, such as the moa and Tasmanian tiger.
The Mongolian death worm (Mongolian: олгой-хорхой, olgoi-khorkhoi, "large intestine-worm") is a creature alleged to exist in the Gobi Desert. Investigations into the legendary creature have been pursued by amateur cryptozoologists and credentialed academics alike, but there has been little evidence found to support its existence.